Senior Design Engineer

RC Fornax are looking for a Senior Test Engineer to join the Radar Test Equipment delivery team at our customer site in Edinburgh. In this role, you will develop hardware-based equipment that will perform various testing, from design verification through acceptance to repair on our range of Radar products.

Skills

• Have a degree in Electronic Engineering / related science or equivalent work experience.
• Be able to self-manage, self-motivate and be looking to continuously develop.
• Have the ability to analyse system level documents and derive detailed unit requirements under own initiative.
• Be able to communicate effectively across different disciplines both verbally and in written form.
• Be willing to work on your own or as part of a team to resolve technical issues.
• Have a methodical and thorough approach to hardware design.
• Be able to interface with suppliers of key components and assemblies

Desirable

• Experience of designing solutions for one or more of the following technologies:
• Radio Frequency/Microwave/Antenna
• Digital and/or Analogue
• Power Supplies
• High Speed Digital Interfacing
• Common interfaces i.e. RS422, 1553, I2C/SPI, Ethernet
• Knowledge of Requirements management tools such as DOORS.

Responsibilities

• Design and development across the full lifecycle from requirements analysis; through conceptual, preliminary and detailed design, procurement and manufacturing support; to integrating the hardware with the hosted software and firmware; and lastly to acceptance test and delivery to the customer.
• As a design engineer, you will be responsible for creating high quality and robust data packs; for fully documenting and recording your work products; keeping them under configuration management and providing plans and reports on progress to your line manager.
• Completing tasks in accordance with appropriate processes and procedures.
• Taking an active role in engineering process improvement.
• You will work closely with Software and Firmware engineers to solve real integration problems at system level.
• Dependent on experience, you may also:
• Provide technical direction for the design, as well as guidance to the wider Test Equipment team.
• Be responsible for project deliverables.
• Mentor, coach and teach other engineers within the team.
• Review engineering estimates of tasks incorporating advice on how to reduce cost and timescale, increase compliance and reduce technical risk to inform bids and estimates to complete.
• Lead the technical direction and provide the oversight needed for the engineering team to achieve technically compliant work packages.
• Act as the domain expert in support of customer and user engagement understanding their requirements in the context of the solution